1st Edition

Rock Blasting Terms and Symbols A Dictionary of Symbols and Terms in Rock Blasting and Related Areas like Drilling, Mining and Rock Mechanics

Edited By Agne Rustan Copyright 1998
204 Pages
by CRC Press

204 Pages
by CRC Press

This dictionary represents today the most extensive rock blasting dictionary available and it is therefore a valuable tool and essential for research and writing reports, papers to international journals. Terminology is important in the process of development of a science because it is the language for communication between students, teachers, technicians, scientists and practitioners in the... Read more
Introduction, Terminology list, Notes for the user, List of symbols and abbreviations, Symbols, Greek symbols, Acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, References

Biography

Agne Rustan Division of Mining Engineering, Lulea University of Technology Lulea, Sweden

"Absolutely essential reading for students, teachers, engineers, earth scientists, etc. in this field ...."

"...and will assist dramatically in ensuring the different specialists are using terms consistently. " 

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